"Martha Speaks: Meet Martha"
written by Karen Barss (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, $12.99, 23 pages) is all about a talking dog
and adventures galore
based on the characters created by Susan Meddaugh. A super
picture reader, a small package, highly recommended.

"How About A Kiss For Me?" by
Todd Tarpley and illustrator Liza Woodruff for ages 0
to 2 (Penguin/Dutton, $16.99) is all about a little boy who
embarks on a "kissing adventure" involving dogs, cats, bats, cows, etc. Delightful looking, fun for
parents to read aloud and more fun for little ones to listen
to - -this book is a winner.

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About the Authors: Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are a wife and husband
team who successfully bridge the worlds of popular culture and traditional
scholarship. Co-authors of the critically acclaimed interactive oral histories
It Happened in the Catskills, It Happened in Brooklyn, Growing Up Jewish in
America, It Happened on Broadway, It Happened in Manhattan, It Happened in
Miami. They teach what they practice as professors at Dartmouth College.

They are also travel writers who specialize in luxury properties and fine dining
as well as cultural history and Jewish history and heritage in the United
States, Europe, and the Caribbean. More
about these authors.